Pornography Declared "Public Health Crisis"

[Skwim]

"SALT LAKE CITY — Utah lawmakers took a bold step in the final minutes of the 2016 Legislative Session. Late Friday night, the Utah House of Representatives passed a resolution declaring pornography a public health crisis. The resolution is the first of its kind in the country.

"Society must see this evil like the epidemic it is," said Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, member of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. "This ought to be seen like a public health crisis, like a war, like an infectious fatal epidemic, like a moral plague on the body politic that is maiming the lives of our citizens."

"We do need to see this (pornography) like avian flu, cholera, diphtheria or polio," said Elder Holland. "It needs to be eradicated."

Elder Holland said pornography should be treated like a war that people from every faith should fight together.

The resolution declaring pornography a public health crisis will be sent to Governor Gary Herbert for his signature.
source​

Too bad the article doesn't spell out the evil nature of porn that makes it such a public health crises. Or at least give us the hard evidence of its awful effects on people; however, I suspect there isn't much of that at all, and that Elder Jeffrey R. Holland has simply found a platform for self-aggrandizement. It wouldn't be the first time a religious leader (he's a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and currently the sixth most senior apostle of the church) concocted a windmill to tilt at. I just hope that lacking any good evidence that porn is indeed harmful the Governor chucks the resolution out the window.

The only harm I've ever seen documented is to some of the people in porn.

 

[Revoltingest]

It's happened before that someone misspelled "public health" as "pubic health".
Too bad it didn't happen this time.

 

[suncowiam]

I dunno. My right hand does start to feel pain when I view porn.

 

[Sunstone]

"SALT LAKE CITY — Utah lawmakers took a bold step in the final minutes of the 2016 Legislative Session. Late Friday night, the Utah House of Representatives passed a resolution declaring pornography a public health crisis. The resolution is the first of its kind in the country.

"Society must see this evil like the epidemic it is," said Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, member of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. "This ought to be seen like a public health crisis, like a war, like an infectious fatal epidemic, like a moral plague on the body politic that is maiming the lives of our citizens."

"We do need to see this (pornography) like avian flu, cholera, diphtheria or polio," said Elder Holland. "It needs to be eradicated."

Elder Holland said pornography should be treated like a war that people from every faith should fight together.

The resolution declaring pornography a public health crisis will be sent to Governor Gary Herbert for his signature.
source​

Too bad the article doesn't spell out the evil nature of porn that makes it such a public health crises. Or at least give us the hard evidence of its awful effects on people; however, I suspect there isn't much of that at all, and that Elder Jeffrey R. Holland has simply found a platform for self-aggrandizement. It wouldn't be the first time a religious leader (he's a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and currently the sixth most senior apostle of the church) concocted a windmill to tilt at. I just hope that lacking any good evidence that porn is indeed harmful the Governor chucks the resolution out the window.

The only harm I've ever seen documented is to some of the people in porn.

It's Utah. What should one expect?

 

[Skwim]

It's Utah. What should one expect?

You're right. And there's no sense in hoping the Gov. will throw it out. He's a dyed in the wool conservative LDS member.

 

[Paleo]

Oh it's Utah.
How shocking.

 

[Revoltingest]

Somewhat related, is this Slim Jim commercial (abbreviated for your viewing pleasure).....

 

[Twilight Hue]

I tried to picture Ron Jeremy hanging out with a Mormon just for perspective, and suddenly wound up with Orgazmo.

"Making sex safer."

So I'll have to disagree with the premise of the OP.

 

[Laika]

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[Buttercup]

There have been posts in this thread that come close to breaking rules 1-3? Seriously? Good grief. The Islam/Muslim threads should all have warnings then.

 

[The Neo Nerd]

The Islam/Muslim threads should all have warnings then.

Silly Buttercup.

It's alright if a religious person says it. That's called freedom of speech.

 

[Tomorrows_Child]

So, I don't get it. People on here actually want pornography? Someone posted acting like it carried no negative effects what so ever. Come on now folks.

 

[Katzpur]

So, I don't get it. People on here actually want pornography? Someone posted acting like it carried no negative effects what so ever. Come on now folks.

There are people on this forum who will take an opposing position to virtually every statement made by a religious person. You just have to get used to it. If you were to start a thread about how horrible murder is, these same folks would find a reason to disagree with you.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

People on here actually want pornography?

I know I do. Porn is great. Well, if you know where to look, anyway. (Or just create your own.)

 

[Buttercup]

So, I don't get it. People on here actually want pornography? Someone posted acting like it carried no negative effects what so ever. Come on now folks.

Should it be outlawed? It's here and some people want it.

 

[Katzpur]

I know I do. Porn is great. Well, if you know where to look, anyway. (Or just create your own.)

So, I'm curious, Franky, do you also feel this way on those days when you are in a "Catholic frame of mind"? When you believe in God and in Jesus Christ, and in Christ's suffering to make you pure and clean in God's eyes, would you say that on those days, you would also say the "porn is great"? And if the answer is "yes," could you explain how you reconcile that with your belief in living the kind of life Jesus Christ exemplified for us?

 

[Katzpur]

Should it be outlawed? It's here and some people want it.

Go Bernie! No further comment.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

So, I'm curious, Franky, do you also feel this way on those days when you are in a "Catholic frame of mind"? When you believe in God and in Jesus Christ, and in Christ's suffering to make you pure and clean in God's eyes, would you say that on those days, you would also say the "porn is great"? And if the answer is "yes," could you explain how you reconcile that with your belief in living the kind of life Jesus Christ exemplified for us?

Even when I was Catholic, I haven't agreed with Catholicism's teachings on sexual morality in a long time. They tend to be quite unhealthy and psychologically damaging. I had already dealt with various forms of abuse as a child that led me to hate myself and to feel guilt and shame about myself and my sexuality (merely being sexual, not just orientation) in general. Trying to adhere to the Church's sexual teachings only compounded that, during the time I actually strived to do so. It didn't end well. Catholic theology is very big on guilt in many ways, moreso than most other Christian denominations. There's a reason that "Catholic guilt" is a stereotype of the religion and the butt of jokes. But to those who take it seriously and are experiencing it, it's no laughing matter. So I had consciously stopped agreeing with Catholicism's teaching on the subject a long time ago.

I am not a Christian and don't want to be one anymore. It has its good points, but the bad was too much for me. I don't find the Jesus and Mary of Catholicism to be realistic standards to attempt to live up to.

As for porn, there are issues with it and that merits a thread of its own, and I could expound upon the problems with it. But the issue isn't so much porn itself, but society's relation to sex, gender, race, standards of beauty, etc., capitalism and consumerism in general. But sex-positive pornography that embraces queerness, trans people, non-whites, women, people who aren't "traditionally" attractive or embody society's impossible standards of beauty, etc. has been an healthy influence in my life and has helped and is helping me to accept myself and to heal from past traumas.

 

[Katzpur]

This question is for the women posters on RF. If you had an incredibly nice body and were, therefore, physically suited to be a porn star, would you choose to be one or not? Please explain the reason for your answer.